Love is friendship on fire -- anonymous

While a painting, even one that meets photographic standards of resemblance, is never more than the stating of an interpretation, a photograph is never less than the registering of an emanation (light waves reflected by objects) — a material vestige of its subject in a way that no painting can be.

There is a terrible, mean American resentment toward a writer who tries to do many things.

I like to feel dumb. That’s how I know there’s more in the world than me.

Try not to live in a linguistic slum.

I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting.

My own view is that one cannot be religious in general any more than one can speak language in general; at any given moment one speaks French or English or Swahili or Japanese, but not 'language.